The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-05-26
IN GENERAL.

Pressure Isle is to have National Bank.
Portland wants the State muster this fall.
he Maine W alter Gas Company. Portland
has cone into Insolvency.
1t VIII probably require until August 10 COM
pei" lhe basement of the new public buildr.
in Augusta.
Howard owen, Esq, has been elected pre~-
dent of the Augusta Society for The Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. Dr. Wm Il. I.api,am.
Secretary.
Amaziah McCa>ln died suddenly Nav 49,.
lie was Il naI!Neo OF 'oitImbia and well known
resident Of Marilia> for thrty-iive years
Albert II. Ric, mate of the shin ErIkna,, of
itpckliert, aS been arrested on charge of muir
der.
Hon ;. v. Matthews, Commissioner of Sta
il>tirS. opened his cilicc ri tile State House on
saturday. He will occupy HE room ,I,yotrl
t"tit fch>'oh department jointly with Sprawlie
Few Acres" the homestead and for late
years the summer Residence of the late Jacob
Ahh"tt, the author. was sold May 18th TO Eben-
Ger knowiton, Of Pennington. The price
paid WAS $1,000
y syndicate of which Hon. j. II. Mamie,
and other Augusta gentlemen are members has
purchased 30 acres of land at Hull, Cove, Mt.
Desert. II is pronounced one Of the most AT
tr;uiivc spots on tile island.
The Augusta journal says Mr.. Orvillc d..
Lombard has delivered TO John 4. WoodSum.
the kcnnebcc hay shipper, this week IS, huIes
IF hay ,,399 lbs This i, the largest lof of
hay pressed from amy one farm TIL, wear in
hcmIrbcc Go.
The immense barn, over 100 feet long on the
llbrrt shaw farm ut Industry. was burned
trhGly with ten tons of hay, tive moving ma
chimes and other farm tools. J. H. Saver. who
occupies the farm says it WAS the work of
tr1lnrs. Loss, S2.ND; insured for 800
The natives of Maine living in Cambridge
have formed an association called the SoI,
of Maine, numbering 81. May 18Th the asso-
citation had a dinner at loung's Hotel in BoS-
ton. Several speeches were made, II was
voted TO have ladies' day in June.
capt. Amos Clement, Of Sterling, Kansas,
uncle of Dr. +. L. Wasgatt, of Bangor, recent
~ dic.t at the age of scycnty-eight. He went
10 California in - and returned to this State
N o., but left soon afterwards again for the
West. He was native Of Seal IIarI,or where
ais brother now lives.
y young man named Alfred Simmons. living
at hnightsville, Cape Elizabeth Nav 10Th saw
a girl with whom he had been keeping company
walking with another young man of whom he
Is jealous; simmons went home, got out his
pistol and shot himself. The wound was moi
fatal but his ear was blown off.
The Maine Wooden Manufacturers met in
Portland, May - and transacted little public
business beyond the election Of officers as fol-
lows: President, l.. Anderson. Skowhegan:
secretary, a. .. Campbell. Sangerville; EXecu-
tive Committee, X. S. Russell, Boston, +. j.
Goodspeed, Madison, +. n. Goodall, Sanford
At present the hands in Maine mills are
working 60 - hours week. After July The
working time will be reduced by law to 60
hours. The Biddeford Times suggests that
here is chance for Saturday half holiday by
working the same number Of hours each day
as now and getting through Saturday ioon.
Thirteen years ago David Silver of Rumford
disappeared and was never heard from. His
father has just died, and it appears that he
confessed to one Bugbcc that he killed his son
in self defence with a sled stake. and buried
the remains under his barn. The matter was
not divulged till his death.
The comrades of the Fourth Maine Battery
residing in Augusta, have received from Abel
Davis, President Of the Battery Association.
notification that the next reunion will be held
in Auburn, OIL Tuesday, the 14th dav of June.
The programme will include addresses, a ban
quet camp fire and a sail on Auburn lake.
Since the meeting last year two of the old
comrades have left the ranks to return no
mora. Is. Frost and Leonard III. Lincoln.
Mr.. Ira ID. Sturgis at his Vassalboro farm
will cultivate twelve acres of sweet corn for
ensilagc this year. picking the larger ears for
the canning factory. He will sow one hundred
bushels of oats and many more of barley.
Mr.. Sturgis believes there is money i'm farminp
when it is rightly managed, and that farmers
should get out of the sold rutS."